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Mary Moon has 25 years experience as a practicing chemist. Her experience includes lubricants, metalworking fluids, cleaners, conversion coatings,paints, and other specialty chemicals, development of laboratory test procedures, managing R&D projects and strategic planning. Her expertise includes tribology,electrochemistry, rheology, computer simulations, and statistics. She is fluent in French (conversational) and German (reading). Selected positions and responsibilities:

Measured and simulated particle packing and developed means to control particle segregation in films

Ms. Moon holds a BS degree in Chemistry (with Research Honors) and BA degree in Physics, both from Lafayette College, Easton, PA. She holds a Ph.D. degree in Chemistry (Physical Chemistry) from the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL and an MBA (with Distinction, Finance concentration) from Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ.

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David H. Vahlsing has extensive petroleum industry and consulting experience, with emphasis on process design, technology evaluation, project scoping and oversight of project teams. Dave developed and applied his professional expertise at various locations within Sunoco, Inc and subsidiaries, including the Toledo refinery, the Central Engineering Department, the Toronto headquarters of Suncor and in R&D, and since with HEA and Becht Engineering. He was the Central Engineering expert in HF Alkylation, Isomerization, treating of crude and refinery projects where he also supervised the Process Design and computer support groups. He has evaluated many licensed technologies for use in Sunoco’s refinery…

Harry A. Adams worked for BP Oil (formerly The Standard Oil Co. of Ohio) in R & D for many years and served as Process Technology Manager for BP's worldwide petroleum coking operations. Following his retirement from BP, he has been a coking consultant serving many clients throughout the USA as well as in Canada, Indonesia, Kuwait, Brazil, India, Switzerland, and Argentina. Successfully supported a client that does coke cutting on a contract basis in resolving a performance dispute between the client’s customer and the client. An excessively hard coke was unacceptably increasing coke cutting time. The issue was quickly…

JOHN D. BARRY, PE John D. Barry has over 30 years experience in process design and development in the petroleum refining and chemicals industries. His experience includes full-scale and pilot plant processes, HAZOP analysis, and facility start-up. His skills include P&ID and PFD development, process simulation using ASPEN, HYSIS, and PRO/II, mass and energy balances, equipment sizing, selection, and costing using HTRI, AFT Fathom, and Icarus, hydraulic calculations, physical property and VLE estimation, and relief device sizing and rating. Petroleum Refining As Senior Process Engineer (contractual basis) on-site in an east coast refinery, he conducted a detailed study of existing amine…

Joseph C. Bell has over ten years experience developing new technologies and transferring results into manufacturing processes. Joe is skilled in researching new products, optimizing and validating process operations, devising solutions to engineering problems and providing customer service. He has led project teams though the entire development cycle beginning with initial concept and lab experiments to engineering design and construction and ultimately to process operation. His experience includes particle technology, processing slurries, solids drying, polymer chemistry developing coatings, supercritical fluid applications, electrochemical processes, surface phenomena designing electrochemical processes, and researching heterogeneous systems. As a Process Development Team Leader with PPT…

Frederick W. Camp, a founding principal of HEA, has technical, operations, and management experience in chemical engineering. A seasoned generalist, Dr. Camp's forte is application of engineering theory and principles to solving practical development and operational problems. His special areas of expertise include process development, design, and scaleup; oil sands extraction and processing; economic analysis; design and analysis of experiments; mathematical modeling; and strategic technology planning. He joined the R&D Department of Sunoco, Inc. in 1962 and advanced through positions of increasing managerial and technical responsibility over the succeeding 30 years, retiring in 1991. During 1964-5, he was appointed group…